Fahad
Masculine · “leopard”
Fahad is a leopard or a panther in Arabic — one of the language's several distinct words for big cats.
How old is the name Fahad?
Fahad first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Fahad alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,600 people named Fahad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fahad most popular?
Fahad peaked in 1999, reaching #1903 nationally. Today it ranks #2451, 548 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From fahd to Fahad
The story of Fahad
Hunting cheetahs were trained and kept by Arab and Persian rulers for over a thousand years, carried hooded on horseback and released at gazelle — a practice that only ended when the animals were hunted out. Fahd names them. Fahad is standard in Gulf naming and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
leopard, panther, cheetah
From the Arabic fahd, 'leopard' or 'cheetah'. Cheetahs were kept and trained for hunting across the Arab world and Persia for centuries. The word is ordinary Arabic and the reading undisputed. Fahad is the Gulf spelling.
How the name formed
- fahd
- Fahad
Related forms: فهد · Fahd · Fahad
Pronouncing Fahad
fah-HAHD
Two syllables, stress on the second. Arabic Fahd is one syllable.
Nicknames for Fahad
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1978
- Most boys named
- 202473 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1903reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −24.7%55 in 2025, from 73
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Fahad in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- فهد in Arabic — transliteration
- Fahd in English — spelling variant
- Fahad in Urdu — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Fahads among us
people named Fahad are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 31,056 born in 2025 was named Fahad
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Mica test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Fahad's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mica climbed just as high around 1979, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mica's path sketches the road Fahad is walking now.
Fahad sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Fahad is headed
Fahad looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Fahad beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Fahad in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That trained hunting cheetahs were kept for a thousand years is a first-rate fact.
- The leopard meaning is concrete and strong.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- Fahd and Fahad are both in circulation and differ in syllable count.
- It reads as specifically Gulf Arabic.
- The internal h is often swallowed by English speakers.
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Frequently asked
- How many Fahads are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Fahad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Fahad in 2025?
- Fahad ranks #2451 among US boy names in 2025, with 55 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Fahad?
- About 1 in every 31,056 US boys born in 2025 was named Fahad — 55 in all.
- Will my child share the name Fahad with classmates?
- Fahad will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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